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Map pages

Map pages display ServiceNow data
graphically on a Google map page based on
location data that you provide.

You can create as many map pages as required to define the types of data to display, the links
to show, and the appearance of the map. After creating the map pages, you can create modules to
display the map pages.

Map locations

Locations are used by various applications to locate users, facilities, or configuration items
(CI) and are stored in the Location [cmn_location] table. You can configure different levels of
location in a parent-child hierarchy. For example, an email server might be associated with a
location of Second Floor, whereas the email business service might be associated with New York
City.

Each level of this hierarchy contains a separate location record, with the next higher level
specified as a parent. In this example each location is selectable as a hierarchy from reference
fields:Figure 1. Location hierarchy

The location is also used to generate a full identifier in the Full
name field, which is available by configuring the form as follows.Figure 2. Location Full name

How locations are defined

To create a location, navigate to User Administration > Locations and click New.

Table 1. Define a location

Field

Description

Name

The name of the location. This name is the display value that the system uses when
referencing this location on a form.

Street

The street address of the location.

City

The city of the location.

State / Province

State or province of the location.

Zip / Postal Code

The zip or postal code of the location.

Country

The country of the location.

Contact

Name of a user who is the contact for this location.

Phone

The phone number for the location.

Fax phone

The fax number for the location.

Parent

Name of the parent location for this location. Location hierarchies are described
above.

Latitude

The latitude of the location.

The get_lat_long business rule
automatically populates this field and the Longitude field
described below when the form contains enough information, such as an address or city name
and a postal code.

Deactivate this business rule to prevent the system from
overwriting any values entered manually into these fields.

Longitude

The longitude of the location.

Fields that can be added by
configuring the form:

Company

A reference field to the Company[core_company] table.

Full name

A read-only, calculated field that assembles the parent hierarchy of the location
into a full name.

Stock room

A boolean field that identifies whether the location is being used as a stock
room.

Time zone

The time zone of the location. By default, the location uses the system time
zone.

Latitude and longitude

When a Company or Location record is created, or
has one of its address fields changed [street, city, state, zip or country],
the get_lat_long business rule is triggered. This business rule uses the
GoogleMapsHelper script include to create
sys_geocoding_request records.

A scheduled job called Process Geocoding Request runs every 10 minutes,
and processes sys_geocoding_request records. Process Geocoding
Request uses Google Map
service to populate the latitude and longitude fields of the changed or created
Company and Location records.

After the latitude and longitude are populated, Map Pages can be defined that display
locations in an interactive map.

Note: Latitude and longitude are expressed as a floating point
data type. Previous releases expressed this information as a string. During an upgrade, the
system converts the data where possible.